Why do so many people in Montgomery County try to act "country" all of the sudden?

[Rufus Clay Banger]

I don't understand the point of this thread.

[papichulo2]

this thread.. lol

[SearchingForTheRightPlace]

Originally Posted by Turnerbro

Out in the Poolesville area, there are a decent amount of "good ol boys" That area is still pretty exurban. Also the race baiting garbage in this post is really unnecessary, and frankly just makes you seem racist.

I have to agree - regardless of what you are, you seem to have an issue with white people. At least your post comes off that way.

[kcmo]

Originally Posted by LunaticVillage

It seems like every white other person in Montgomery County thinks they're from West Virginia all of the sudden. Driving obnoxious lifted trucks with deer stickers on the back, wearing cowboy boots and hunting camo casually, "dipping" chewing tobacco, only listening to country music, telling anyone who will listen that they were raised in "the country", even going as far to forcing cringe-worthy "country" accents when DC area white people usually pride themselves with the lie that they "don't have an accent". It's all very odd.

Yes, Montgomery county is semi-rural. But it seems like the people adopting this image aren't farmworkers but people who grew up in the mcmansions across the street from the farm. The whole donning flannel, Carhartt and cowboy boots looks stupid when most adults who dress like this in Montgomery County go to work in very, very white collar office jobs. It's really cringeworthy to see adults adopting these personas out of the blue like they are still in high school. Especially when it's people you know personally who were anything but "country" five years ago.

It's like the same people who tried to convince you that Gaithersburg is the "ghetto" have given up on that lie and are now try to convince you that it's the "sticks". I've seen white people go as far to do stereotypical redneck things like park an old truck caked with mud in the front lawn of their very suburban whitebred white collar upper middle class neighborhood.

Is this all because suburban dwelling white people feel that they have no culture at the end of the day? Is it because white men feel emasculated by liberalism and upper middle class white collar white male privilege and want to reclaim their masculinity by superficially embracing redneck culture? Is it because Trump's "Make America Great Again" movement has riled up faux rural patriotism and voyeurism amongst upper middle class whites for working class white people who are going extinct because of low birth rates, drug addiction and unemployment? Do you really have to tailgate everybody in your spotless lifted truck with an empty bed? Do you really have to stare down people of color like they are out of place wearing your Larry the Cable Guy costume like this is some dive bar deep in Appalachia when you're at a Chipotle in Rockville? When are you going to cut off your ironic working class man mustache that makes you look like a character in a Jonah Hill movie?

It's much much worse in AA County. I actually don't see it much at all in Montgomery County, at least in the Silver Spring or Rockville area.

[seanlax]

This thread belongs in a High School Facebook Group.

[North Beach Person]

Originally Posted by seanlax

This thread belongs in a High School Facebook Group.

I agree, which is why I've stayed out of it. Plus, the people I know from Montgomery would be offended if it was implied they were anything but urbane and well educated sophisticates.

[mikeyo321]

Originally Posted by LunaticVillage

It seems like every white other person in Montgomery County thinks they're from West Virginia all of the sudden. Driving obnoxious lifted trucks with deer stickers on the back, wearing cowboy boots and hunting camo casually, "dipping" chewing tobacco, only listening to country music, telling anyone who will listen that they were raised in "the country", even going as far to forcing cringe-worthy "country" accents when DC area white people usually pride themselves with the lie that they "don't have an accent". It's all very odd.

Yes, Montgomery county is semi-rural. But it seems like the people adopting this image aren't farmworkers but people who grew up in the mcmansions across the street from the farm. The whole donning flannel, Carhartt and cowboy boots looks stupid when most adults who dress like this in Montgomery County go to work in very, very white collar office jobs. It's really cringeworthy to see adults adopting these personas out of the blue like they are still in high school. Especially when it's people you know personally who were anything but "country" five years ago.

It's like the same people who tried to convince you that Gaithersburg is the "ghetto" have given up on that lie and are now try to convince you that it's the "sticks". I've seen white people go as far to do stereotypical redneck things like park an old truck caked with mud in the front lawn of their very suburban whitebred white collar upper middle class neighborhood.

Is this all because suburban dwelling white people feel that they have no culture at the end of the day? Is it because white men feel emasculated by liberalism and upper middle class white collar white male privilege and want to reclaim their masculinity by superficially embracing redneck culture? Is it because Trump's "Make America Great Again" movement has riled up faux rural patriotism and voyeurism amongst upper middle class whites for working class white people who are going extinct because of low birth rates, drug addiction and unemployment? Do you really have to tailgate everybody in your spotless lifted truck with an empty bed? Do you really have to stare down people of color like they are out of place wearing your Larry the Cable Guy costume like this is some dive bar deep in Appalachia when you're at a Chipotle in Rockville? When are you going to cut off your ironic working class man mustache that makes you look like a character in a Jonah Hill movie?

Wow, this is an impressive post. LOL Quite a lot of pent up rage and frustration over...???


This is another level of "white people problems". LOL


To address the teeny, tiny little kernel of truth to what the OP is saying here, it IS funny to see some of the white guys I've met over the years from upcounty areas like Damascus, Poolesville, Germantown, etc. seem to effect a bit more of a country accent and/or posture compared with people from equivalent suburbs on the Virginia side like Centreville, Chantilly and Herndon. Then again, those areas in Virginia were shaped largely by Dulles Airport and all the corresponding surrounding office development over the last 30 years. Everything about western Fairfax County culturally and economically is very suburban and there's no protected rural area like in upcounty MoCo. Suburban Maryland generally has always struck me as a little bit more class conscious than Northern Virginia outside the Beltway. In NoVa, especially outside of liberal Alexandria and Arlington County there's more of a tacit agreement. There, all races, religions and nationalities mostly get along because it's more or less assumed that you have at least a Master's degree and make well into six figures, likely work for a death science defense contractor, are probably middle of the road culturally and politically and generally don't want to make waves and just go along and get along. Basically, they're more universally upper middle class. MoCo, with it's greater ECONOMIC as well as racial/social diversity seems to have a slightly spikier culture where the question, "what do you do?" and "where do you live?" sometimes takes on more meaning.


Still, all of these things are small potatoes in daily life. Fun to think about, though.

[personone]

Maryland is a Southern state, but unless a lot has changed, I wouldn’t think the majority of people in Montgomery County act country. I can definitely see it in Anne Arundel, Carol, or even parts of PG and Howard County.

[stpickrell]

Originally Posted by mikeyo321

Wow, this is an impressive post. LOL Quite a lot of pent up rage and frustration over...???


This is another level of "white people problems". LOL


To address the teeny, tiny little kernel of truth to what the OP is saying here, it IS funny to see some of the white guys I've met over the years from upcounty areas like Damascus, Poolesville, Germantown, etc. seem to effect a bit more of a country accent and/or posture compared with people from equivalent suburbs on the Virginia side like Centreville, Chantilly and Herndon. Then again, those areas in Virginia were shaped largely by Dulles Airport and all the corresponding surrounding office development over the last 30 years. Everything about western Fairfax County culturally and economically is very suburban and there's no protected rural area like in upcounty MoCo. Suburban Maryland generally has always struck me as a little bit more class conscious than Northern Virginia outside the Beltway. In NoVa, especially outside of liberal Alexandria and Arlington County there's more of a tacit agreement. There, all races, religions and nationalities mostly get along because it's more or less assumed that you have at least a Master's degree and make well into six figures, likely work for a death science defense contractor, are probably middle of the road culturally and politically and generally don't want to make waves and just go along and get along. Basically, they're more universally upper middle class. MoCo, with it's greater ECONOMIC as well as racial/social diversity seems to have a slightly spikier culture where the question, "what do you do?" and "where do you live?" sometimes takes on more meaning.


Still, all of these things are small potatoes in daily life. Fun to think about, though.

One of my old coworkers grew up in Chantilly (graduated HS in the mid 80s) and acts country ...

The protected rural area is more like western Loudoun/PWC.

MoCo has a number of development patterns within its borders ... you have old-school $$$$ (Bethesda/Potomac), old-school downmarket (Silver Spring/parts of Gaithersburg), new-school $$$, new-school downmarket, small town (Poolesville), and rural (the ag belt) ... in NoVA those "areas" are split between Fairfax, PWC, and Loudoun whereas in MD they are all concentrated in MoCo.

Frederick and Fredericksburg are also big enough to have maintained separate identies ... sort of like Worcester MA is to Boston. Leesburg and Manassas were too small when the DC blob started expanding so they have been largely swallowed up.

[MrMaryland455]

Originally Posted by kcmo

It's much much worse in AA County. I actually don't see it much at all in Montgomery County, at least in the Silver Spring or Rockville area.

You don't see it in Germantown, Gaithersburg or Clarksburg either. You run across a few rednecks but most of the time their coming from Poolesville (which many people in MoCo don't even recognize), Frederick or Damascus. The rest of Montgomery County has the mindset of Washington DC.